Londonistan: 423 New Mosques; 500 Closed Churches

British multiculturalists are feeding Islamic fundamentalism. Muslims do not need to become the majority in the UK; they just need gradually to Islamize the most important cities. The change is already taking place.

British personalities keep opening the door to introducing Islamic sharia law. One of the leading British judges, Sir James Munby, said that Christianity no longer influences the courts and these must be multicultural, which means more Islamic. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chief Justice Lord Phillips, also suggested that the English law should "incorporate" elements of sharia law.

British universities are also advancing Islamic law. The academic guidelines, "External speakers in higher education institutions", provide that "orthodox religious groups" may separate men and women during events. At the Queen Mary University of London, women have had to use a separate entrance and were forced to sit in a room without being able to ask questions or raise their hands, just as in Riyadh or Tehran.

"London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together", according to Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi, one of the Islamic preachers who now lead "Londonistan", as the journalist Melanie Phillips has called the English capital. No, Rizvi is not a right-wing extremist. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate for Literature, was less generous; he called the UK "a cesspit for Islamists".

"Terrorists can not stand London multiculturalism", London's mayor Sadiq Khan said after the recent deadly terror attack at Westminster. The opposite is true: British multiculturalists are feeding Islamic fundamentalism. Above all, Londonistan, with its new 423 mosques, is built on the sad ruins of English Christianity.

The Daily Mail published photographs of a church and a mosque a few meters from each other in the heart of London. At the Church of San Giorgio, designed to accommodate 1,230 worshipers, only 12 people gathered to celebrate Mass. At the Church of Santa Maria, there were 20.

The nearby Brune Street Estate mosque has a different problem: overcrowding. Its small room and can contain only 100. On Friday, the faithful must pour into the street to pray. Given the current trends, Christianity in England is becoming a relic, while Islam will be the religion of the future.

In Birmingham, the second-largest British city, where many jihadists live and orchestrate their attacks, an Islamic minaret dominates the sky. There are petitions to allow British mosques to call the Islamic faithful to prayer on loudspeakers three times a day.

By 2020, estimates are that the number of Muslims attending prayers will reach at least 683,000, while the number of Christians attending weekly Mass will drop to 679,000. "The new cultural landscape of English cities has arrived; the homogenised, Christian landscape of state religion is in retreat", said Ceri Peach of Oxford University. While nearly half of British Muslims are under the age of 25, a quarter of Christians are over 65. "In another 20 years there are going to be more active Muslims than there are churchgoers," said Keith Porteous Wood, director of the National Secular Society.

Since 2001, 500 London churches of all denominations have been turned into private homes. During the same period, British mosques have been proliferating. Between 2012 and 2014, the proportion of Britons who identify themselves as Anglicans fell from 21% to 17%, a decrease of 1.7 million people, while, according to a survey conducted by the respected NatCen Social Research Institute, the number of Muslims has grown by almost a million. Churchgoers are declining at a rate that within a generation, their number will be three times lower than that of Muslims who go regularly to mosque on Friday.

Demographically, Britain has been acquiring an increasingly an Islamic face, in places such as Birmingham, Bradford, Derby, Dewsbury, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Sheffield, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets. In 2015, an analysis of the most common name in England showed it was Mohammed, including spelling variations such as Muhammad and Mohammad.

Most important cities have huge Muslim populations: Manchester (15.8%), Birmingham (21.8%) and Bradford (24.7%). In Birmingham, the police just dismantled a terrorist cell; there is also a greater probability that a child will be born into a Muslim family than into a Christian one. In Bradford and Leicester, half the children are Muslim. Muslims do not need to become the majority in the UK; they just need gradually to Islamize the most important cities. The change is already taking place. "Londonistan" is not a Muslim majority nightmare; it is a cultural, demographic and religious hybrid in which Christianity declines and Islam advances.

Thousands of Muslims participate in a public outdoor prayer service in Birmingham, England, on July 6, 2016. (Image source: Ruptly video screenshot)

According to Innes Bowen, writing in The Spectator, only two of the 1,700 mosques in Britain today follow the modernist interpretation of Islam, compared with 56% in the United States. The Wahhabis control six percent of mosques in the UK, while the fundamentalist Deobandi control up to 45%. According to a survey from the Knowledge Center, a third of UK Muslims do not feel "part of British culture."

London is also full of sharia courts. There are officially 100. The advent of this parallel judicial system has been made possible thanks to the British Arbitration Act and the system of Alternative Dispute Resolution. These new courts are based on the rejection of the inviolability of human rights: the values ​​of freedom and equality that are the basis of English Common Law.

British personalities keep opening the door to introduce sharia. One of Britain's leading judges, Sir James Munby, said that Christianity no longer influences the courts and these must be multicultural -- which means more Islamic. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chief Justice Lord Phillips also suggested that British law should "incorporate" elements of sharia law. The British cultural establishment is rapidly capitulating to Islamic fundamentalists in accepting their demands.

After the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, recommended self-censorship and "some restraint" in discussing Islam. The British ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Simon Collis, converted to Islam and completed the pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj. He now calls himself Haji Collis.

What will be next?

Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.

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Derek • Dec 1, 2019 at 12:12

This is the direct result of 40 years of continuous Conservative government, with no socialist intervention whatsoever. The last time the UK saw a true socialist government in Westminster was way back in the 1970's.

Reagan and Thatcher stimulated the growth and spread of radical, extreme Islam in the UK, and Europe, to combat any rise in Communism or Socialism. They were warned by experts of the dangers of cosying up to the ideology, but Thatcher would have none of it. She saw fundamental Islam as a means of eradicating socialism from the UK, and it has indeed done just that, which is what Thatcher's Saudi friends told her it would do.

It is not only in UK but across Europe Conservative PM's like Thatcher, Major, Merkel, Reinfeldt etc have swamped their countries with millions of Muslim immigrants, because they adore the ultra-conservative ideology, and its hatred of socialism. The Saudis pay big money to Conservative governments who take in many Muslim immigrants, as it helps them to spread their extreme brand of radical Islam into Europe.

The Conservatives in the UK take their Muslim immigrants, and dump them in Labour strongholds to break down that Labour majority, which is one reason why Labour is not getting the votes it used to get.

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M Ryan • Apr 10, 2017 at 18:17

On Sunday I witnessed a very long procession of Sikhs in Glasgow. Organisers claimed that there were 3,000 people in the procession although I suspect there might be an element of exaggeration in that, from what I saw. Also the procession involved Sikhs from across Scotland, not just Glasgow. Nevertheless it shows the strength of this religion in Scotland. It would be interesting to see figures of Sikhs compared to Christians similar to those for Moslems compared to Christians.

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Paul • Apr 10, 2017 at 05:30

What an absolute pile of rubbish this article is. In London, the amount of new Pentecostal/Evangelical, Orthodox and Polish Catholic churches that have opened in the past 10 years is staggering.

Gatestone Institute: whilst I applaud your general message and mission, poorly researched articles like this do nothing to help our cause of eradicating Islamist expansion in Europe.

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D. Davies • Apr 4, 2017 at 08:56

Successive governments have been ignorantly allowing huge numbers of people from Muslim countries to enter Britain. Many of us were complaining about this in the 1980s but were ignored or put off with promises of a Referendum of the EU membership. A points system for entering Britain has been consistently refused. Humanists, not Christians have been in charge of governments and our Christian principles and ideals have been quietly undermined since the 1950s until we are now at the stage when totally anti-Christian laws are being passed. The Archbishop of Canterbury, being a political appointee, does not stand for "real" Christians but tries to bridge the gap between the teaching of the Church and very powerful Humanist/Marxist influences which are becoming ever more vociferous. Christians have little opportunity to speak out and are ridiculed and attacked with hostility, in some cases arrested.

However, it should be made clear that those who seem to be converting to Islam are not the native British people - (by native I refer to those of us whose ancestry is Anglosaxon, Welsh, Scottish, Irish) - but more usually men (immigrants or children of immigrants) who have been coerced into "converting" while serving a prison sentence. This is a matter which is only just now coming to the notice of the government!Sadly the British people have become more and more materialistic since the privations of World War 2, and the so-called prosperity that came with the Welfare State, (based on borrowing, so that we are now hugely in debt).

Historically Islam only expands at the expense of the weak, those who are off-guard and unready. They specialise in terror but when nations fight back they can win, for example, when IS first swept into Iraq they took peaceful villages and unarmed people by surprise, but now the tables are being turned.

In a different way this has happened in Britain and Europe, and I feel that it will end in civil war.

Or there may be a great Christian Revival.

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Paul D. Davies • Apr 10, 2017 at 10:58

The increasing diversity of immigration in the UK is very encouraging. In most UK cities between the periods of 2001 and 2011, the fastest growing ethnic groups were; Chinese, 'White other' (Eastern Europeans) and African (mostly Christians from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria etc).

Immigration from Pakistan and Bangladesh (our two largest importers of Islam) has stagnated and even declined a little in recent years, whilst immigration from India (mostly Hindu and Sikh) continues to grow.

Another ethnic group that is growing fast in the UK are Latin Americans, who are now estimated to be almost a quarter of a million strong.

In Ireland, a recent religious survey showed Hinduism and Orthodox Christianity as the fastest growing religions in the country, with Islam taking third place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39516154

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James Stamulis • Apr 4, 2017 at 08:07

IF the Muslims are turning Europe into the Islamic countries they left then why did they leave? The obvious answer to anyone with a brain is to conquer not assimilate. The globalists are doing exactly what they planned and first they disarmed their people before importing Islam. I would like to know when is Ted Cruz's bill to name the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group going to pass? We need to get behind Trump and nip Islam in the bud.

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Domus Canus • Apr 4, 2017 at 08:04

And the queen, defender of the faith, but what faith? She and her family would be out of work but won't be short of a few quid, yet they play the ostrich as the country is reduced to third world status complete with men running around in pyjamas and women dressed in bin bags. What a sickening future the indigenous people of this country face, and not a backbone amongst them other than the few who face jail when they speak up.

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Richard • Apr 4, 2017 at 01:49

This is what happens when you have leaders that betray their country and ignore the indigenous population. These Muslims must be laughing their socks off at the stupidity of these so called leaders, both in government and the majority of the UK celebrities that are quite happy to see the ever increasing immigration and the destruction of their country. The majority of these "immigrants welcome" are insulated from the effects that this invasion is having on the general population. It is hard to believe that those in power continue to appease these people whose culture is totally alien with western civilization. To think that Britain fought two world wars at the costs of thousands of lives to keep the enemy out and now these spineless imbeciles might as well be waving white flags, as they are happy to welcome in this collective bunch of people whose only purpose is to dominate every western society and turn them into satellite countries of the Middle East.

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Jacques DUMON • Apr 3, 2017 at 16:54

A well known french writer and polemist, Eric Zemmour (of jewish background) wrote a best seller book 2 years ago "Le suicide français" (the french suicide).In my humble opinion, France not yet has reached to such a degree of surrender to islamism as your article describes it in England.In particular I think that it is absolutely impossible that some elements of the sharia might be included in the french laws within a middle term future.
Hearing some anglican high ranked clerics to promote such inclusions in the GB's laws is utterly apalling.England's suicide is well ongoing.

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John Jacques DUMON • Apr 4, 2017 at 00:58

When France had the French Revolution during the 17th century, they were using guillotines for cutting people heads off. Did that haveanything to do with Islam during that reign?

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Stewart • Apr 3, 2017 at 16:53

England was once the jewel in the crown of European Christendom. England's rich Christian heritage is increasingly denied and rejected, and what little remains has been distorted and corrupted. It is inevitable, and indeed justice, that when we reject Christ, we embrace Antichrist. AS Jesus said; "I came in my Father's name, and you rejected me. But when one comes in his own name, that one you will accept."

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Buzz • Apr 3, 2017 at 10:21

Hijrah is a term that everyone needs to learn. Excerpt from article by Monica Crowley:

"Hijra is a core part of jihad going back to the Prophet Muhammad that involves Islamic conquest through migration. The objective is to overwhelm non-Muslim territories with Muslim populations until they achieve domination through sheer numbers."

Leftists who have long wanted to see Western civilization and culture destroyed and Muslim migration provides them that tool.

The greater problem is not Islam, although that is a great problem because it has turned the One and Only God into a counterfeit malevolent force time and again.

The greater problem is that those in the West have turned their back on God. They do not pray (beyond a muttering or two), they do not regularly attend church, they do not think they sin, they do not care if they do, they do not think about the reality of God and passing into the next life and what it may hold for them? How can you not? How can you not see the evidence for God, heaven and hell? How can you be so cavalier about your own mortality and then wake up one day on the other side of the grave shocked and mortified. God asks so little of you and even that is a nuisance apparently.

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Empress Trudy • Apr 3, 2017 at 09:41

Europe lost its faith and belief in itself. Instead of rejuvenating its belief it replaced its own people with people who do believe.

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Clifford Hall • Apr 2, 2017 at 22:09

Sir James Munby is a professed secularist. His basic premise is that the law is not the repository of Christian morality. Those cited who have spoken about Sharia, Rowan Williams and Lord Phillips, were adverting to the right to choose mediation and other ADR fori without departing from fundemntal principles including resort to the civil courts. Williams is clearly an oddball on this, however, and some of his comments have clearly been over the top.

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Paul • Apr 2, 2017 at 20:50

The decline in church attendance by Christians is not representative of whether they still believe in their God. It could be that in our enlightened age, Christians no longer believe in the Church itself or need to publicly demonstrate their piety. Unlike Islam, Christianity does not require that you have a visible dark mark on your forehead from praying or wear a particular form of dress to display your beliefs.

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Paul • Apr 2, 2017 at 20:37

It is surprising that his Lordship, Judge MUNBY should mention that Christianity no longer 'influences the courts and these must be multicultural.' I thought that the cornerstones of Democracy were the separation of powers of Politics and Justice without any influence from religion? What he is suggesting is that we should place these powers back into the hands of the Imans through Sharia or doesn't he realize that this will be the eventual result of this process.

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Eleanor • Apr 2, 2017 at 18:59

Fear mongering at it's finest. Why not consider another religion which is at its peak? The LDS church is the fastest growing church in America, but we do not worry about america becoming a nation of polygamists as we accept that these sects are outside of the mainstream peaceful religion. However, as soon as Islam is introduced we run in fear and push our christian background. Christianity was once (yes, a very long time ago) the minority religion in England and you only have to look at the crusades and the civil war to see the horror it caused. our world is shifting yes, but this type of article only furthers the feelings of antagonism toward the other. And much like another comment I've seen here I would love to know if this article includes the increasing number of churches meeting in non-church buildings. This is where the biggest Christian revival is taking place.

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Paul Eleanor • Apr 3, 2017 at 22:13

Eleanor, I implore you to research the historical roots that lead to the Crusades. You will find that it was not because blood thirsty Christians decided to plunder the holy land. Instead, they answered a plea by the then Pope to recapture and defend following expansion of the Islamic empire who put all who would not renounce their faith to the sword or enslaved them. Sometimes, there is a need to be ruthless when you are fighting a ruthless enemy. Turn the other cheek and they will take the opportunity to cut your throat.

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Edward Kent • Apr 2, 2017 at 18:06

While it is nice you are publishing this article, no one is reading it, at least not enough people.

It is important to understand that the British establishment committed England to cultural suicide when they awarded the Beatles OBE medals. That was the beginning of cultural Marxism in the Judaeo-Christian west in what was planned as a long Trojan Horse campaign through decades and generations to bring about a global secular world system that we are now engaged in fighting as it comes in to more clear view called "Globalism".

Muslims are simply being used as a literal tool of nihilism, a sharp-edged sword that will wipe out the Judaeo-Christian culture before being annihilated itself by the police state.

During all of this, successive generations of children will grow up brainwashed by UN multi-cultural (destruction of all cultures) policies in schools and groomed for the gleaming Communist future where their only life purpose and justification will be to be a good producer and consumer in a totally nihilist world void of all past cultural references and religions where the very elite few (Supreme Soviet) live off the sweat of the worker bees whom they bring in to existence or decommission having come in to state control of procreation and death. Hitler eat you heart out.

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Juanita Skelton • Apr 2, 2017 at 18:04

This is a stunning revelation, along with the hundred other stunning revelations about Europe and the UK. The numbers mentioned are amazing. So, we now fly to "Londonistan" when we want to see the wreck that Islam is creating in our Allies?I want to say one thing. Because people have decided not to attend church, doesn't necessarily mean they don't believe in G-d or Yeshua. Religion has been getting it wrong for thousands of years. Stepping away from formal religious practices, with all the Sharia Courts forming, and the mosques numbers increasing, it probably seems that church isn't "gettin' 'er done"!?!?... if you will excuse the idiomatic vernacular.Britain has lost her courageous soul but we don't have to follow suit. I will NOT do jury duty in a Sharia Court! I will never accept honor killings, FGM, or child brides. 9/11 is our reminder of all the martyrs, along with our brave soldiers and their sacrifices. If Britain wants to go Neanderthal, I will have to hope that Ms. May will NOT don a burkha when she goes on her Middle Eastern "junk"-ettes!!!This all makes me furious but not hopeless. Will we see the Queen in niqab soon? I think a nice chadoor goes very well with her secluded, royal, lifestyle. A good public servant deserves an appropriate uniform. Now, is someone going to invent a really good fabric that won't get grass stains on her majesty when she prostrates herself in front of the Mufti?????

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Frances Weingarten • Apr 2, 2017 at 17:58

What can one say? One can only lament the loss that Britain and much of Western Eruope will experience when fundamental Islam takes over their countries. As has been pointed out in many articles now, Sharia law has become more and more frequent in increasing areas of Britain and many Western European countries and ultimately, as a result of their policies, these countries will lose their identity and be forced to live under Sharia law. A worse fate I cannot imagine! I can only hope that North America doesn't follow suit!

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Terrence D Gallagher • Apr 2, 2017 at 17:43

Goodbye to western civilization in the EU. Guess the last stand, as usual, will have to be the USA. Best of luck, EU, it was nice knowing and sharing with you.

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b.a. freeman • Apr 2, 2017 at 17:17

i can tell U what's next: UKistan, or perhaps Britanistan. within 10 or 20 years, he who calls muhammed a monster will get the death sentence from old bailey itself. a civil war might be able to fix things, but only at a great cost in lives lost. the left has blood on its hands.

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Ian • Apr 2, 2017 at 15:55

"One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory."

—Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne's prophetic warning to Europe in a speech at the U.N. In 1974.

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robert m owen • Apr 2, 2017 at 15:28

I am not a world traveler but I have always thought that, when my ship comes in, I'd like to see the British Isles and especially Ireland for which I hold an uncanny fondness. The cowardice of Britain in the face of the Islamic invasion makes me doubt that I'll ever realize that dream. No, I don't mean the English people. Like the US, Britain is cursed with a class of "Liberals" willing to give up their culture to avoid conflict with the Muslim world and its' western supporters. There is a political struggle going on there, as there is in the US. In the US, we are winning ours against murderous Islam and the vampire class of Americans who seem so in favor of giving up culture and sovereignty. We may be winning by a slim margin but it is early in the game here and we are determined and well supplied. Sorry, England, I guess I'll spend my money at home and die without seeing the Motherland. You are just too far gone, unless you start to heed those conservative voices soon.

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Mickey Oberman • Apr 2, 2017 at 14:44

"I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.May this fair dear land we love so wellIn dignity and freedom dwell.Though worlds may change and go awryWhile there is still one voice to cry
There'll always be an EnglandWhile there's a country lane,Wherever there's a cottage smallBeside a field of grain.There'll always be an EnglandWhile there's a busy street,Wherever there's a turning wheel,A million marching feet.Red, white and blue; what does it mean to you?Surely you're proud, shout it aloud,"Britons, awake!"The empire too, we can depend on you.Freedom remains. These are the chainsNothing can break.There'll always be an England,And England shall be freeIf England means as much to youAs England means to me.

We are watching a enormous tragedy unfold.

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Randy Rogers • Apr 2, 2017 at 13:10

One of London's foremost pastors responded to a direct question about the Islamification of Great Britain by stating it was greatly overstated.

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Raveena • Apr 2, 2017 at 12:55

As a London born Indian Sikh I concur with G Meotti's report. The islamisation of U.K. is indeed worrying. But the most perplexing thing is why government and other authorities are encouraging this - something I've long been contemplating. Not only are hijabs a common sight in London and other cities but BBC also seem to be making them a regular feature in reality tv and competition features - unlike with other minority groups such as sikhs and Hindus. It is only a matter of time before we see hijab wearing news readers on the BBC.

I despaired when some schools stopped declaring 'happy Christmas' in fear of upsetting non Christian groups - I LOVED christmas at school and the notion of insensitivity didn't occur in slightest to me or my parents. London today is unrecognisable from even just 10 years ago, the white Brit is becoming a rarity here.

No other ethnic group in U.K. has demanded cultural rights to be reflected in the law (with the exception of sikhs allowed to retain their turbans rather than helmets on motor cycles). My law abiding parents and uncles were eternally grateful for their lives in UK, they worked hard and paid their taxes and retired comfortably. My generation got the benefit of university education and professional careers and a comfortable integration with both Asian and British values.

I reiterate, why are the authorities accepting and encouraging this? And I ask the often asked question - why do the muslims keep wanting to come here if British values are so opposed to theirs'?

Finally, let's get clear - there are many sensible, wise and non radical muslims here and they are as great as any other decent human being. The problem is with the ones who set themselves apart, live defiantly in a world dominated by their own extreme medieval values with no notion of happy co-existence with other cultures or progress in today's world.

The average Brit isn't at ease with this changing face of uk but the government ignores this - at their peril.

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Jac Raveena • Dec 23, 2017 at 10:07

That was a very interesting read. It's nice to see what people of other cultures think about all what is going on here in the UK. It's a frightening time unless there is real change in government values. The one thing that struck me with this New World Order is that they say "destroy the old world to create the new" so maybe that makes sense in what our government and Europe are doing.

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m phillips • Apr 2, 2017 at 12:52

While there has been a decline in numbers in Anglican Church attendance in Britain, the latest findings have been more positive. Cathedrals have witnessed a rise in congregation numbers, especially amongst young professionals. Also, there was no mention in this piece about the rise in attendance in Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, Baptist and Evangelical Churches.

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Richard • Apr 2, 2017 at 12:10

The last paragraph in this article is a question which asks, "What will be next?" I have the answer for those who can't figure it out themselves in the UK: THE END!

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Samuel Meza • Apr 2, 2017 at 11:57

Let's hope common sense prevails and the British people stop that craziness called Islam which is the true devil. For some reason I do believe a great part of the European citizens are awakening and things are going to change. Let's hope so.

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MBroughton Samuel Meza • Apr 2, 2017 at 18:39

Samuel, Britain is strong through their belief in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Europe is slowly awakening to the daily deception of Islam and citizens are sitting up to take notice - the trick is to stand in solidarity for no Sharia Law, Britain first and if you dont agree then go back home. The Brits have to be strong and firm in their conviction - we live in an honest Judeo-Christian society as we have for hundreds of years why should marauding bands of Muslims come here to change our way of living and principals!!

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Elizabeth Lawson • Apr 2, 2017 at 11:51

How strange to read of a modern democratic country, still governed by all the precepts of Christianity that made it great, substituting what made it great for a seventh century, and barbarous ideology. Perhaps one can reason that while these Islamic transformations are being wrought in British cities, the overall governance and culture of British democracy remain intact - for the moment. Are the British sleepwalking, while they are being gobbled up, piecemeal, by determined ideologues from barbarous lands? The UK is a great prize for Caliphate bearers, as are all modern, wealthy countries. Mohammed, and his army lived off the avails of all that they conquered - until nothing was left in those lands, necessitating a decamp to yet a new and unfortunate country.

The Islamic armies left nothing but ruin and death in their wake, history has made that very clear. So, with the greatest respect to the British, I would suggest that all their "leaders" are leading them into a Hell on earth. It might not be a bad idea to demand the resignation of these failed leaders, before it is too late. As well, any Christian church being led by a person whose conduct insults and contravenes the teachings of Christ should immediately be removed from control of His church. The strength of the British people, renowned historically, will have to rise and defeat this challenge. Perhaps they might even consider educating and civilizing the newly arrived to the notions of peace, love, freedom of speech, and - oh yes, respect for the individuals (women) without whom they would never have seen life.

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jeb • Apr 2, 2017 at 11:44

One should ask which two belief systems have lead to more church and Bible burnings than any other? "Socialist" movements and Islam.

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geoffrey ben-nathan • Apr 2, 2017 at 11:32

"What will be next?" asks Giulio Meotti in concluding his article.

Will the British people in a referendum vote for "Islamexit"?Maybe they might vote for it without a referendum.

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clive delmonte • Apr 2, 2017 at 11:25

Where will it end ? Should I learn Arabic ?

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Dominic Stockford • Apr 2, 2017 at 11:17

How many of the 'closed churches' are like ours? A congregation that is still active, but has moved out of a hopeless Victorian building into something more sensible? So the church building is technically 'closed', but we are making use of TWO other buildings now.

Don't get me wrong - Islam and its spread is a threat to the UK. Stats on their new buildings are obvious. However, stats on closed buildings may not be all they seem.

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jayell • Apr 2, 2017 at 11:14

'A third of Muslims do not feel part of British culture'. Since Islam played no part whatever in the historical creation of the United Kingdom, and indeed it's tenets are often in direct opposition to British values, it cannot be deemed to be part of British culture. Therefore if ANY muslim claims to feel 'part of British culture' they are either ignorant of what that term is supposed to mean, or they are fooling themselves, or they are lying.

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af • Apr 2, 2017 at 10:22

I'm waiting for Prince Charles to announce his name change to Prince Abdul.

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Mateusz • Apr 2, 2017 at 10:15

Either Great Britain awakes to her spiritual and cultural legacy, or she dies, for there will be no more Great Britain when Muslims outnumber practicing Christians and, in the next stage, take power in their hands. This is the final wakeup call for not only Great Britain, but also France, Germany or the Netherlands (sadly, I believe it's too late for Sweden). Time to end the harmful Muslim immigration and to present and undisputable ultimatum to all the ghettoized Muslims: integrate and adhere to the law of the land, or be the subject of deportation to your home countries. Will the Western democracies have the courage to do that? I do not know, but I doubt the PC-overwhelmed could achieve that.

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Stuart West • Apr 2, 2017 at 09:45

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME, on the so called Church of England. The Arch Bishop strolls around in his costume and pointy hat, the Synod more concerned with Lesbian vicars and the weddings of mustached hairy men than the death of Church Christianity. But make no mistake; THE ELECT OF CHRIST, HIS BODY IS THRIVING, always has done, if Christ be with them, who can be against them.........bad times coming, watch and pray..........

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Randy Rogers Stuart West • Apr 2, 2017 at 13:45

The church leadership is largely in denial. Hijra (Islamic invasion by immigration and birthrate) has continued well into the tipping point. Even the mayor of London is a Muslim. I honestly don't see a future for Great Britain save a real revival of vital Christianity.

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Vicki holland Stuart West • Apr 2, 2017 at 15:11

I must agree with every word, Stuart. The Church of England outwardly presents a pathetic picture of weakness and compromise, but it has always been the invisible Church of Jesus Christ that matters. Sadly too many Christians are not putting on the armour of God and we will all face dark times and persecution until or unless the Church is revived.

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Michael Waugh • Apr 2, 2017 at 09:43

The creeping infestation of an alien religion or way of life into the civilised West is in deed a pity. The thought of sharia law into our Courts is also a disgusting thought. I am glad my children passed through university before the immigrant threat arrived.

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Lofty Basta • Apr 2, 2017 at 09:42

The West has to understand that Muslims comprise: "Economic Migrants and Religious Warriors". I am expressing my opinion as a proud American who lived in this country for 46 years and who pledged allegiance to the American flag, and as one who was born and spent 37 years in Egypt before coming to America and as a devout Copt (Egyptian Christian) who chronicled how the Arab Spring went astray in my book "Let There Be Spring".Muslims in America belong to almost two distinct groups with, necessarily, some overlap.

The first group of economic migrants seek a better life for themselves and their loved ones, are readily assimilating in the American culture and traditions, contribute to the American progress and pay their fair share of taxes. This group includes professionals, venture capitalists, inventors, innovators, professors and entrepreneurs. They do not dress or behave different from any other American citizen. They Obey the American rules and traditions and are respected by the many. They comprise devout religious Muslims who follow the precepts of Islam and they readily know that what they eat or do in their own homes, clubs or mosques is their own prerogative so long it does not encroach on others unlike them. They deserve, and have earned, all that America can offer in recognition, freedom, justice and equality. This group MUST be treated like any other American group and should never be discriminated against.

The other group of religious warriors tends to be less educated and more demanding. They have loud voices, always complaining, usurpers of public good, feel entitled to handouts and are good at playing victimhood. They pray in public, demand to take off from work five times per day to pray, dress different from the rest of Americans, the women among them demand to cover their heads in public (a requirement ONLY by the virulent sects of Islam), retain the visual characteristics of extremism, go to Mosques in which Imams spew hatefulness against infidels, use social media to propagate the plague of resentment against the West and espouse wars against what they call the permissiveness and overt loose behavior of Westerners, and call any act of fear from fanaticism by Westerners as a manifestation of Islamophobia. This group wants to change America to suit its beliefs rather than conform to the American traditions.

Sadly, President Obama, upon his visit to a mosque in DC declared to the congregation: "You Can Be a Muslim and also an American". He should have said: YOU MUST BE AN AMERICAN FIRST AND YOU CAN WORSHIP OR NOT AS YOU PLEASE, PROVIDED YOU DON'T ENCROACH UPON OTHERS. Let me say it loud and clear: whoever cannot assimilate in America has the freedom to live in the country that conforms to his/her beliefs. AMERICA WON'T CHANGE ITS WAY OF LIFE JUST TO SUIT A CERTAIN RELIGIOUS GROUP.

I asked several of my Muslim friends who belong to the first group: "why don't you speak out against the second group"? In response, I always got a version of "it would be futile". I sense that they have it good in America and that they don't want to be embroiled in this matter and in the possible consequences of showing their disapproval of the extremists.

Egypt is similarly divided into the progressive "science believers" and the regressive "religious zealot" factions. The President (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), many of the millennials and most of the better educated people as well as some of the opinion makers on news media are for progress. On the other hand, many leaders in Al-Azhar (the main religious arbiter), Sheikhs and most Imams hardened by the fanatic new appointees during the short rule of the Muslim Brothers from June 30-2012 till July 3-2013, are sympathetic with extremism. Victor Hugo, the author of the time honored novel "les miserable" famously said that wars will end only when poverty and ignorance vanish. The latest IMF (International Monetary Fund) report indicates that Egypt may have turned the corner and that tourism, availability of the dollar and investments in Egypt are on the increase. Also, employment and productivity promise to increase steadily. This is thanks to the courageous move from Sisi to float the Egyptian pound which lost more than 50% of its value and inflation increased by 28%. However, Egypt's beleaguered economy is clearly on the mends and inflation is expected to stabilize. If that progress continues and the country is spared unforeseeable setbacks, President al-Sisi's popularity will increase again while fanaticism will become less prevalent. The outcome will be that Egypt and its progressive faction will prosper. Let us hope.

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Mario Lofty Basta • Apr 3, 2017 at 16:49

Until the tipping point.
When islamists feel they have sufficient leverage, even the "economic migrants", as you call them, will only have two choices available to them:1. cave in to the demands of their false prophet & his book;
2. stand their ground and fight the "warriors", but be considered apostates.
They know very well what their destiny will be then.

"I asked several of my Muslim friends who belong to the first group: "why don't you speak out against the second group"? In response, I always got a version of "it would be futile". I sense that they have it good in America and that they don't want to be embroiled in this matter and in the possible consequences of showing their disapproval of the extremists."

I rest my case.

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Hartmut Nagel • Apr 2, 2017 at 09:23

What will be next? The imans proclaim that Islam will defeat Western Civilization with democracy. I never thought it possible but they are well on their way. All 3 branches of government are aiding their cause by applying democratic principles, everything they are doing is legal. Does democracy have limits. I think it should before Democracy will defeat itself. If the liberals continue unchecked, there can only be one answer, I hate to say; Civil War!

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Marianne • Apr 2, 2017 at 09:03

This information is misleading...there are a lot of COE closing...but the Free churches are increasing...there are well over 1,500 already in London...

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Kenneth Smith • Apr 2, 2017 at 09:03

Wake up Britain, the writing is on the wall. Why is it that the British people are allowing their society to be permanently changed, virtually without any discussion or agreement from the members of our traditional British community?

Once Islam is in the dominant position in Britain we can wave goodbye to our traditional British values and freedoms, their will be no going back without major civil strife.

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Kaytee • Apr 2, 2017 at 09:00

I get the thing about the spread of mosques, but the only reason churches are being turned into anything but churches is because of the sad decline of Christianity in Britain. If there were Christians, there would be churches. But the truth is that the abandonment of Christianity is the cause of a ton of these problems, including the inability to stand up to a satanic cult like Islam. If you're in Britain, do you even go to church? If not, dhimmitude is in your not far-off future.

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Chuck • Apr 2, 2017 at 08:59

By any chance, has Queen Elizabeth made any comments regarding the huge cultural shift in her beloved England or perhaps the lack of leadership shown by the Church of England?

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Natalie Nussey Chuck • Apr 4, 2017 at 08:16

Have a look on youtube at the Queen of England, defender of the Faith visiting a mosque wearing a Hijab. On her coronation she swore an oath to the Archbishop of Canterbury and I quote, 'Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel.'
https://www.royal.uk/coronation-oath-2-june-1953Psalm 11 v 3. If the foundations be shaken what can the righteous do? We now await the arrival of the Righteous Judge, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The end of all things is upon us and who shall be counted worthy to stand before the Son of Man.
We must pray for our Queen as scripture commands, 1Timonthy 2 v 1 and 2. I exort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, I shall hear from heaven and heal their land. Who knows if the Almighty in His Mercy may turn towards this Godforsaken nation again and bless us with times of refreshment from the presence of the Lord.
Let us pray that a national day of fasting and prayer is called for this whole nation. Even so, Come Lord Yeshua.

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jeb • Apr 2, 2017 at 08:51

So the courts are advancing the closed one dimensional Sharia laws in preference to their own traditions that have lead to a more open society with civil law and claims civil law is church law? How constipated are the British that they choose to choke to death pluralistic paradigms with the myth of Islam is less limiting?

How do the myth makers of regressive liberal socialism get to the point they accept that the stagnation of the Ottoman Empire and its territories were caused by the west and not a result of the limitations of Islams closed and oppressive laws?

I have recently been reading of the revival of capitalist schizophrenia.

What should concern us most is when socialists talk about diversity and accuse "capitalists" of being ideologues, which shows a clear disconnect with these western "intellectuals" and their own definitions.

The fact is Islam and western liberal socialism share a vision of "peace" that is dependent on imposing "sameness" rejecting diversity and accomplishing this by "redistributing wealth". President Obama's policies are the perfect template for their inane ideology they now claim is not an ideology, capitalism is the ideology in their upside down world. They reject progress through production and limit the human experience rather expand its boundaries except in moral terms. They may differ on LGBT mythology and morality but on issues like pedophilia there is some cross over.

That the courts are not specific what they consider divergence between civil law and Christian morality and Islam and sharia is startling corrupt and false.

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BAS • Apr 2, 2017 at 08:50

There is no doubt most people holding high office in Britain are too myopic, or just too cowardly to face reality. The fabric of society is being transformed. What is happening to their country is a rehash of what happened during the 1939 when Germany was preparing to invade Europe, they were reluctant to arm their country to counter the treat until it was too late. Same things is now happening, and these goes most of other western country.

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Terence Curry • Apr 2, 2017 at 08:47

The only part of sharia law which appeals to me is Capital punishment. Do Rowan Atkinson and his ilk realise that they are in fact calling for that? Of course any liberal lefty including Atkinson would be horrified at the very thought, yet that is what will come willy nilly. Death to homosexuals, backsliders adulterers (four wives will be allowed of course) and anyone else, who breaks their law.

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Julian Larkin • Apr 2, 2017 at 08:42

Giulio Meotti paints a truly alarming picture of the pace of Islamisation in the UK. I find it absolutely loathsome that British judges and the former Archbishop of Canterbury are selling us down the river by actually welcoming that process. Do they really not know that Islam is not a religion of peace and that it has never been? Are they not aware of the suras in the Koran that make quite clear Islam's agenda: to take over the world, sweeping aside the cultures and religions of every country and forcing all non-Moslems to convert, the failure of which gives Moslems the right and duty to kill the "infidel"? The whole history of Islam has been a story of violence, intolerance and barbarity. We should never be fooled by the statements of "moderate" Moslems that they seek to live in peace with non-Moslems. The true Moslems are the jihadists and unless the West wakes up to the dangers now writ large, all Moslems will be obliged to become fundamentalists and there will be a bloodbath that will exceed the blood-letting of the crusades. Yes, Christianity was once a barbaric and cruel religion but it grew up and became civilised under the influence of the Enlightenment. Islam will never develop and become humane, since its primitive tenets were fixed permanently by its founder in the 7th century. The UK is sleepwalking towards disaster and the only way to halt it is for all non-Moslems to wake up to what is happening and take action.

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Ghilmeini • Apr 2, 2017 at 08:36

Who will be the first arch-imam of Canterbury?

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Hanna • Apr 2, 2017 at 08:24

Londonistan is here to stay, unfortunately!!! It is already too late for Britain and for the rest of Europe. I think that this is a major tragedy, or as Wole Soyinka called it --- A CESSPIT!!! As for the too many MOSQUES --- this is only the beginning --- it will double in no time. The British people, or what is left of them better be prepared to convert to Islam, or else.... It is hard to believe what is happening --- whole countries are going INSANE. I wonder what they are eating or drinking. It will not be long when Saudi Arabia will be more "liberal" than England, or what ever else it will be called. One thing for sure --- IT IS TIME FOR ALL JEWS TO LEAVE ENGLAND. This is all our "perfect" world needed --- one more Islamic cesspool. It makes one want to cry.

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Neptune • Apr 2, 2017 at 07:47

The problem is that if one writes and talks about this he/she is blocked. Everyone appears to have decided to be lovers of these tribals. Even a presumed right wing tabloid like DailyMail does not display any realistic comment on Islam in England.

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Jeff Page • Apr 2, 2017 at 07:46

This is the sad truth about Londonistan, and the main reason there is a Muslim Mayor. The once proud British have deserted the capital city because they have realised the treacherous politicians have sold them out to Muslim countries with the cash to buy virtually who and what they want! There is a majority of foreigners in London, but many of them newly arrived from Europe didn't have the right to vote for a Mayor whereas the Muslim embedded in many boroughs within the city did. Sadiq Kahn has the Muslims as his first priority, whatever he might say publicly. The better off in London don't witness the realities on the streets, they don't hear, or more accurately, don't want to hear about the people forced by intimidation to move from an area that has a large Muslim population. The Muslims use fear and late night attacks to frighten some people to leave the area. This is true, but you'll never hear an admission from the government and you definitely won't hear it reported by the infamously biased BBC, who rarely if ever, refer to any terrorist attack as being carried out by Muslims or Islamists. Only this very morning it was reported that a gang of 7 Muslim groomers have been charged for abusing yet more young girls in Oxford. But did the BBC report on this? Of course not! We are all expected by government and media to have to live under the fear of attack if Muslims are criticised in any way. Pathetic when you think about it, we have a minority that, are, more than prepared to use violence to inflict their culture and beliefs on to British people and our government are so cowed and scared of retaliation that they let them dictate the terms. The media are also terrified of attacks. That is why the once highly respected BBC, no longer can claim to be impartial! They have forgotten what the word means. Perhaps they can tell us what impartial means in Arabic!

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Toby • Apr 2, 2017 at 07:42

Slowly but surely Gaddafi's 'prophesy' is taking place.

Muammar Gaddafi:-We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allahwill grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns,without conquest—will turn it into a Muslim continent within a
few decades.

Speech (10 April 2006), quoted in New York Sun
(6 September 2009)---

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John MacArthur • Apr 2, 2017 at 07:08

His Lordship is right but if Christianity no longer influences the Courts then Islam assuredly will. Religion, like Nature, abhors a vacuum and the Church will have to stand up, be counted, or be trampled underfoot.

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Robert John Bennett • Apr 2, 2017 at 07:04

Mr. Meotti asks, "What will be next?" I'm afraid the United States will be next.

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Gina Haggard Robert John Bennett • Apr 2, 2017 at 16:49

Robert John Bennett, while I understand your fear the US will be next, I don't think it will. Upwards of seventy percent of Americans identify as Christians, we have a huge gun culture and liberal gun laws (compared to U.K.), and our system of government is different. Some places (such as Oklahoma) have even banned the use of Sharia Law. Having recently returned from a trip to London, I can honestly say the mindset of the people I spoke with on the day of the terrorist attack in London was opposite to most of my friends and family in the US. I realize that is not anything like a scientific survey, but it seems to me, having lived everywhere in the US from Hawaii to Pennsylvania, that Americans are on the whole more conservative, less tolerant of those they perceive as threats to their way life, and have and will act upon a long tradition of armed defense/and or rebellion if stirred.

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Roydenoral Gina Haggard • Apr 4, 2017 at 21:36

I agree with you. Many Americans are descended from Europeans, but we are still very different as regards our beliefs in liberty. We have guns and are not afraid to defend ourselves. Muslims, at some point, might be successful in states such as California, but they will not succeed in "fly-over" America.

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